Feeding Vulnerabilities
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So, here’s the thing – We so often, maybe constantly even, struggle with fear; fear of the future; fear of loss; fear for my life; fear of failing; fear of loneliness and it goes on and on. It’s an endless torment, an endless fighting off the thoughts in our minds. An endless crying out for peace.
My question is, so why do we feed our fears? Why do we go into social media or get involved in conversations that engrain this fear more and more into our souls? Being fed with absolutely that which we are trying to avoid and trying to get free from.
Lets use an example; someone has a fear of being attacked, so now this person will watch movies, listen to news, go on social media and follow stories of people being attacked. She is feeding herself with evil. Isn’t this person busy tormenting herself and coming in agreement with the enemy ? What is she entertaining? What is she filling herself with? What you fill yourself with will consume you and it will control you. What you hook your eyes into, you worship.
It is written in Philippians 4:8-9 ,”Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart]. 9 The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you.
Is this this person entertaining things that are “right and confirmed by God’s word”? We should think continually on that which is right (entertaining it in our minds). Then it says, “practice these things in daily life” (what do we practice daily?) and God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you. Isn’t it when we rid ourselves from feeding off of that which is poisonous to us and rather feed on that which is right – THEN we will experience peace and well-being that we so much desire?
For some of us it’s going to need a bit of effort to get ourselves out of the programming of feeding our vulnaribilities. We will need to become mindful of that which is our enemy and seek God’s face to rid us from that bondage. The most important thing is that we should reprogramme ourselves and change our behaviour of wanting to go on social media or entertaining things that will add to that fear.
May God show us what our enemy is and may we overcome by the blood of the lamb, in Jesus name.
We need to pray– Abba father, oh how we need you. We are so stuck in our ways. We do things where we don’t even realise it is harming us and we allow it. We are being tormented and we are broken. Forgive us for running to and fro trying to find peace and well-being, but we are looking in the wrong places. Forgive us for not running to your word, for not clinging to you, for not relying on you, the one and only God; who is the source of peace and well-being. Deliver us from this and bring us back to your paths of righteousness in Jesus name I pray. Amen.